Boleslaw Bierut

Boleslaw Bierut (18 April 1892-12 March 1956) was President of Poland from 31 December 1944 to 21 November 1952, succeeding Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz and preceding Aleksander Zawadzki. Bierut was a hardline Stalinist and NKVD agent, and he ruled the Polish People's Republic as a dictator.

Biography
Boleslaw Bierut was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire on 18 April 1892, and he became a printer and joined the Communist Party of Poland in 1920. In 1933, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for his arty activities, but he was released early, and he went to Moscow in 1938. He returned in 1943 to work with the communist resistance in Poland, and he chaired the Communist National Council for the Homeland from 1944, organizing the communist takeover of Poland (which had been facilitated greatly by the failure of the Warsaw Uprising). Bierut was a colorless, anti-intellectual, and uninspiring bureaucrat, and he was instead obedient to Joseph Stalin, obeying his directions without fail. He died at the XX Communist Party Congress in Moscow in 1956, which triggered the demise of Stalinism.